He chuckled as he offered his audience members a tongue-in-cheek advisory about the contents of his stump speech.

“I will be talking a lot about personal liberty and our Constitution, but I will warn you, it’s been described as a ‘very dangerous’ philosophy,” Paul said.

The congressman returned to the theme later in his speech, saying he had no worries about a foreign government attacking the United States.

“There is nobody that even comes close to thinking about touching us,” he said. “We have the weaponry. We have the troops. We can defend our country.”

Paul said that U.S. military involvement in conflicts overseas has expanded the national debt by $4 trillion over the past decade. The libertarian-leaning legislator has pledged to remove U.S. troops from all overseas bases, and says he would lift sanctions on all countries, including Cuba and Iran.

This isn’t the first time Paul has used wordplay to address a critique of his positions.

During a Dec. 8 rally on the Iowa State University campus he turned the tables on neoconservatives who say his noninterventionist foreign policy is extreme.

“I think extremists have taken over,” he said at that event. “They’re the ones that run the foreign policy and that convinced us as a country to go along with all these wars.”